Fabus Relish

Friday, 22 January 2016

A big Hi to all my friends and co bloggers out there…..More
than two years, I have abstained from blogging. My new job, hectic works, distant
travelling and very few hours of rest….. Was running around to get things done.

When I look
back, I just wonder that I could not even open my blog or facebook page for the
past 2 years…….What a pity…..I wish I can be back to blogging just as before
and this is a start up for it.Wish me luck pls….

Today I am going to
introduce something which all of you would be interested in. Though I was
brought up in the middle east, I was never a fan of grilled chicken until I had
a grilled chicken from Farooj Express of Ajman.It comes as a combi of either
chicken and rice or chicken and khubz with Hummus. If buying from Farooj
Express,I prefer Khubz along with it and if preparing at home,I prefer rice cooked
in my style. I am not sure if the brand is available all over middle east or
even UAE. But I give you the word that it is one of the must eat grilled
chicken if you are a fan of them.

I have
always tried to bring the taste of hotel foods at home so that I can prepare it
at home for my kids, without much of harm in the food which might be sustained
in those served in hotels.Not exaggerating….Over to the recipe…Hope you all
would like it and try it at home….Am really sorry that I could not click the pics before my kiddoos snatched a piece from them :-p ....

Preparation

1.Take the whole chicken and clean its outer skin
and the inner area by putting your hands inside and removing the materials
inside and rubbing with a little lemon juice or salt.Wash the chicken many
times so that there is no waste materials in the chicken. Make sure the
feathers are completely removed from the outer skin.

2.Do not remove the fat of the chicken as this is
the main part which gives the taste to the dish. For convenience in cooking in
oven, chicken can be cut into half vertically making sure that the skin does
not come out.

3.Mix the Hawaij Spice mix, lemon juice, Salt and
pepper in a bowl.

4.Marinate the chicken with marinade and keep it aside for half an
hour.

5.Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius for 10
minutes.

6.Meanwhile you can start the preparation of rice
by heating a pan and adding oil to it
and sauting the onions.

7.When it becomes transparent, remove it from the
flame.

8.In another aluminium vessel (I used Aluminium
vessel because I cook in electric oven and if it is a microwave oven, a
microwave safe dish can be used), put in the soaked rice,sauted onions,hot
water,salt and all other ingredients mentioned in the rice recipe.Give it a
good stir and keep in the lower part of the oven.

9.Now take the iron wire rack and place the
chicken on top of it. Brush the chicken with some oil. Make sure that while
cooking the fat of the chicken will be collected in the rice vessel kept below.

1.Cook for half an hourat 190 to 200 degree Celsius alternatively
stirring the rice once or twice.

2.After half an hour, turn over the chicken upside
down and brush it with some oil so that the other part gets cooked.

3.Now cook it for another half an houruntil the skin turns brown and a little fried
up. To get the skin fried, you can increase the temperature to 210 degrees and
cook for 5 more minutes.

4.During the whole process, make sure that the fat
of the chicken gets collected in the rice.

5.Now switch off the oven and take out the rice
vessel from it and check if there is still water in it.

6.If there is still water in it, place the vessel
on a low flame on a gas cook top and stir until the water is absorbed by the
rice completely. Do not worry that it will be over cooked because once it is
removed from heat, you will notice that the tenderness disappears and it
becomes rightly cooked to the correct consistency.

7.Now serve it the rice on a tray with the chicken
placed on top of it.

Salted
vegetables and a kick of Sprite or Seven Up goes well with it. Am sure the
aroma of the chicken while cooking itself would make you go mad….One best dish
to try and am sure you would not miss to prepare it every weekends…..Njooyyyyy….

Note : Vegetables like carrot, beans and green peas can be
added to the rice along with other ingredients if preferred. Khubz can also be served with chicken and rice with some hummus.